The HP Veer is what I imagine would happen if you gave children the right to vote on what to size things. It is tiny. The keyboard looks like the keyboard on a toy smartphone—one that you might attach to your regular smartphone as a cellphone charm. Surprisingly, I could still type relatively well on it, but I don't have sausage fingers.

The HP veer has the same body-shape as the Palm Pre and Pre 2, but is smaller—the size of a credit…
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The device is responsive, and you can still do things on it as you would on a full-grown adult phone. But the combination of smaller keyboard, smaller screen and smaller overall size means you might look like Vince Vaughn using a bar of hotel soap when holding this thing. GIVE IT TO A CHILD.